Materials for the Future

Abstract

A number of challenges of the modern world could potentially be resolved on the low level with innovative materials. However, new types of materials need to be designed for such applications, with some characteristics of biological systems: those with self-healing capabilities, with memory functions, those which can evolve differently depending on external conditions. The speaker will be discussing the methodologies to design such artificial living systems and the areas of their applications. As AI is playing a crucial role in the process – the speaker will discuss a variety of AI approaches for the materials design. Also, a very important stream is the materials for AI: the speaker will consider the utilization of new materials for novel, beyond von Neumann computational solutions, which allows significant reduction on the power consumption of modern data centers.

About the Speaker

Prof. Sir Konstantin Sergeevich NOVOSELOV graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and undertook his PhD studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands before moving to The University of Manchester in 2001 at where he achieved isolating graphene in 2004. Now he is the President of Constructor University in Bremen, Germany, while also holding the Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professorship at the National University of Singapore, where he co-directs the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials. He also remains affiliated with The University of Manchester as a Langworthy Professor of Physics.

Prof. Sir Novoselov is an established physicist, specializing in the area of condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology. He has broad research interests from mesoscopic phenomena in ferromagnets and superconductors to electronic properties if two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures and graphene. He also has got a vast background in nanofabrication and nanotechnology.

Prof. Sir Novoselov is one of the laureates of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene. He has been awarded with numerous prestigious prizes, including the Nicholas Kurti Prize (2007), International Union of Pure and Applied Science Prize (2008), MIT Technology Review young innovator (2008), Europhysics Prize (2008), Bragg Lecture Prize from the Union of Crystallography (2011), the Kohn Award Lecture (2012), Leverhulme Medal from the Royal Society (2013), Onsager medal (2014), Carbon medal (2016) and Dalton medal (2016), among many others. He was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours.

Prof. Sir Novoselov has published over 320 papers (mainly as the leading or the corresponding author) with more than 25 papers in Nature and Science, more than 45 Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Communications papers and 16 Physical Review Letters. Every year since 2014 he is included in the list of the most highly cited researchers. 

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